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Alvin Hansen, Keynesian, Dead at 87

By ALDEN WHITMAN ();

June 07, 1975,

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Alvin H. Hansen, one of the principal advocates for Keynesian economics in the United States, died yesterday in Alexandria, Va. The former professor at the University of Minnesota and Harvard was 87 years old, and had been in retirement for several years.

June 07, 1975

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